Tenafeate Creek One Tree Hill Montepulciano 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Tenafeate Creek One Tree Hill Montepulciano 2023.

Tenafeate Creek One Tree Hill Montepulciano 2023
$35, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Lofty Ranges zone.

There’s a lot going on with this wine. In many (and most) ways it’s generous and abundant, its flavour of raspberry, redcurrant, smoked meats and peppercorns given an attractive coating of cedarwood, malt and woodsmoke. Everyone will love the general flavour profile of this wine. The finish of this wine is a slightly different story; it’s dry, serious, stern almost, and tickled with a nut-shell bitterness, almost amaro-like. It’s starts off fun but then turns very grown up. It’s a wine to be reckoned with. It should cellar well too. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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